Individual Mandate Surtax (Page 296): If an individual fails to obtain qualifying coverage, he must pay an income surtax equal to the lesser of 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income (MAGI) or the average premium. MAGI adds back in the foreign earned income exclusion and municipal bond interest.
YOU WILL LOSE YOUR FREEDOM IF THIS IS RAMMED THROUGH. DO NOT GIVE THE GOVERNMENT THE POWER OVER LIFE AND DEATH.

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday the U.S. House health-care system re-write has penalties imposed on individuals who did not purchase insurance, and employers who did not offer coverage to their workers, that would raise $161 billion. WE THE PEOPLE would pay the government $161,000,000,000.00 in just PENALTIES. IT’S JUST A ‘TAX & SPEND’ POWER SCAM.

You are exactly right! On election 2010 lets vote against all of the encumbents, no matter what party they are in. Our representatives and senators have been sitting in Washington for too long cozying up to the lobbyists and allowing the perception of absolute power to corrupt them.

The only reason the Democrats wanted to fastrack this bill was because they didn’t want people to have time to read the text stating that we would be paying for it for 4 years before we got any benefits from it. This would allow congress to shrink their budget deficit before the end of Pres. Obama’s term. Here’s a thought – Stop spending money on pointless pet projects. If you want to spend money to stimulate the economy, do it on infrastructure repairs and upgrades and allow private contractors to compete for the jobs. If they took all the TARP funds and had invested it in road resurfacing and expansion they could have added hundreds of thousands of jobs, albeit temporary, to the economy. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Well, the full text of the bill has been online since Oct. 25 and all of the Representatives individual bills have been online since July. So if you didn’t read any of them that’s your fault. You’ve had 12 days to read this last one.

yes and no, the text of the bill has been continously changing. The point of the 72hrs before final vote is to allow for citizens to read the full final text of the bill before it is voted on. i.e. the text that Bob Snuffy read back in October isnt necessarily going to be the same as the one that was passed last Saturday.

To the Democrats & Republicans in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I and a lot of other people have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the majority of the American people want but without any type of public option attached. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election. We do not want the “Public Option (single payer of any kind)”…..period! Rest assured, we are all watching how you vote now and in the future.

The Obama administration, as inexperienced as they are, are also holding back some of the TARP funds (which aren’t doing any good anyway) so that they can use some of the money to get the “Blue Dogs” on board with this healthcare bill and buy their votes with pork barrel project money to their districts and state(s). Simple extortion to say the least! My friends, we are now on our way to Socialism and the elimination of the Free Market System, better known as Capitalism. Sad, very sad!

Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, one of the committees of jurisdiction over health care, spoke with HUMAN EVENTS to go over a few particulars on the bill his press release dubbed, “Second verse, same as the first.”
“It’s still a massive government takeover of our health care system with tax increases on middle class Americans that will affect their ability to buy health care,” Camp said. “The government plan will force them out of private health care. The Medicare cuts are going to make health care less available to seniors. Fewer physicians will see Medicare patients and fewer hospitals will treat Medicare patients.”
One of the most important elements that remains in the bill is the end to private insurance.
“Because of the government-run plan, in five years you’re going to see millions of people lose the health care coverage they have now and be forced into a government-run plan,” Camp said.

Obama’s failure to act on a Clear and Present Danger.
Deadliest week so far for children and swine flu in USA
ATLANTA – Swine flu has caused at least 19 more children’s deaths — the largest one-week increase since the pandemic started in April, health officials said Friday.
At least 114 children have died from swine flu complications since the spring, up from 95 reported a week earlier, according to the CDC.
Millions have been sickened since April. Swine flu is more widespread now than it’s ever been, with 48 states now reporting widespread flu activity. The only states without widespread flu are Hawaii and South Carolina
Also expect more, a second wave of swine flu leaves 24 in London fighting for life.
There are 751 people in hospital across Britain with the virus, of which 157 – or 20 per cent – are in intensive care. It will take up to three weeks before all 1,700 GP practices can start vaccinating.
DO NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT FOR HEALTH CARE.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) health care plan presumes that about 8-to-14-million American workers will pay fines rather than buy health insurance. Unless they do, there’s a $167-billion hole in her financing plan and everything falls apart.

Like the rest of us, this group would face higher-than-ever insurance prices under Pelosi’s proposed bill.

Speaker Pelosi, President Obama and others claim they will make coverage cheaper, yet the official projection relies upon millions who would prefer to pay fines rather than join their system. In some cases the individuals would pay the penalty; in others their employers would pay; and sometimes both.

The estimate of 8-to-14 million who would be fined is based on the official projections made by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

lucasfoxx- When liberals have no facts they attack the messenger and try to change the facts and then topic. The topic is still HR 3962. The facts are that HR 3962 is unpopular and a costly power grab by the Democrat President and the Congress. The facts are HR 3962 will be found un-constitutional by the high court. I can help you in your effort to find the facts if you can stay on topic. Your personal attacks are meaningless to the debate. DO NOT TRUST THE GOVERNMENT WITH YOUR HEALTH CARE. JUST-SAY-NO TO HR-3962

The topic has always been HR3962. You’ve been unable to stick to facts and have resorted to personal attacks.

What right is it of yours for you to attack people who have legitimate concerns with government spending? Just because the Obama Administration says that the Tea Party Rallies are a small fraction citizens who are “Just wrong” (His words, not mine) doesn’t mean that he speaks the truth. Are you foolish enough to believe the words of a self serving, self righteous and selfish politician that doesn’t really care about anything you think? Are you so delusional to think that you should go out and buy a boat when you can’t even pay the electrical bills? Because that is exactly what is going on here. The Government (Obama), in his infinite wisdom, this that we should spend WAY more money when we are so far in debt that we can barely keep our heads above water! Think logically, do you go and buy something JUST because you want it but you can’t afford it?!? NO!

One last thing, you could at least use your words in proper context. Belligerence doesn’t even come close to describing bkrueg. How about calm, collected, polite, adamant? Those are all proper words. The only person who is belligerent here is you. I realize that only a few of us were taught by our parents to be respectful of others, you were definitely not one of them. Be respectful or don’t comment at all.

The ole, “I’ve been here longer than you bit”. Typical troll talk. Next I suppose your going to tell me that your dad can beat up mine?

I may have only been registered for 6 days, that doesnt mean that I havent been on the website that long. Infact, I’ve been on long enough to know that you spew words from your fingers and make assumptions when you dont take the time to check facts. Case and point: your comments on SJR1 relating to term limits. Do yourself a favor and just be quite.

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